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Tag Name "Deception" (379)

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James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!
Johan Oscar Smith
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner
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For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.
Paul Virilio
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Raul Grijalva
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If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.
Mark Steyn
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey
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Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
Stephen King
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.
Azim Daudpota
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...Why are all these masks winking? Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
Brandon Mull
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
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A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
Chris Hedges
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A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in America. You get a constituency you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That's what politics has become and that's as much an art of deception as economics is.
Michael Hudson
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.
Beth Moore
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.
Harriet Lerner
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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.
Ala Bashir
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All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu
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I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
Lester Cole
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George Eliot
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